Before Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were a paradigm of love in Hollywood, The Vogue reported that Urban dated a vet technician named Laura Sigler. The pair were together off and on in the ’90s and lived together from 1998 to 2002. Urban professed his love for her in the way that all singer-songwriters know how — in song. He dedicated his hit song “You’re The Only One” to Sigler, and even proposed in 2001.
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But all was not well in the relationship, and Urban and Sigler split in 2002. Afterward, Sigler hinted that Urban’s substance abuse issues played a role in the breakup. In a 2005 interview with Today, she said, “There were a lot of lows with the drugs. I don’t have any dark past — he was probably the darkest part, but I’m on my own now and I’m happy about that.” A 2014 Daily Mail article seemingly corroborated Sigler’s account of things, running pictures of a much-younger Urban in his hard-partying days. In a 2022 interview with The Sunday Times, Urban himself opened up about his struggles with drugs and alcohol, crediting Kidman for helping him to get sober. “My dad was an alcoholic, so I grew up in an alcoholic house and it took me a long time to believe I was wired the same,” he explained. “Someone said … ‘What happens when you drink?’ And I said, ‘I break out in cuffs.'”
